strum

See also: Strum and strům

English

Etymology

Variant of thrum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /strʌm/
• Rhymes: -ʌm

• Audio (Southern England):

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Verb

strum (third-person singular simple present strums, present participle strumming, simple past and past participle strummed)

Examples
The sound of a ukelele being strummed: (file)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To play (a guitar or other stringed instrument) by plucking various strings simultaneously.

Derived terms

• strummer

Translations

play a stringed instrument

• Bulgarian: дрънкам (bg) (drǎnkam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 扫弦 (sǎoxián)

• Czech: brnkat impf, zabrnkat pf
• Finnish: rämpyttää (fi)
• French: racler (fr), gratter (fr)
• German: schrammeln (de)
• Hungarian: penget (hu)
• Maori: rakiraki (mi), rakuraku
• Polish: brzdąkać impf, brzdąknąć pf, brzdękać impf, brzdęknąć pf
• Russian: бренча́ть (ru) impf (brenčátʹ)
• Spanish: rasguear (es)
• Vietnamese: gảy (vi), khảy

Noun

strum (plural strums)

1. The sound made by playing various strings of a stringed instrument simultaneously.

   hear the strum of a guitar

2. The act of strumming.

   give the banjo a little strum

Derived terms

• strum box

Anagrams

• Sturm, turms

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Slav.

Noun

strum m (definite strumi)

1. pool

Further reading

• “strum”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• “strum”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980